This resource features a comprehensive literature guide for use while reading Edgar Allan Poe's arguably most famous work, "The Raven." The packet provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition and encourages students to think critically about plot structure, literary elements, and figurative language within the poem. The wide range of activities in this guide will keep your students engaged as they contemplate the meaning of nevermore.

Product Includes:

• Attractive cover page for student packet
• Anticipation guide
• Vocabulary
• Vocabulary drawing activity
• Comprehension questions
• Freytag’s pyramid worksheet
• Literary elements worksheet
• Figurative language worksheet
• "Snap Chatter" activity
• The Raven Socratic Seminar Lesson & Materials
• Full answer keys for teacher use

While this literature guide is Common Core aligned for eighth grade, it is appropriate for students in seventh-eleventh.

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⭐ The Raven Figurative Language Challenge

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More resources to round out your Edgar Allan Poe unit:

⭐ Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint

⭐ Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe Scavenger Hunt

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Bell Ringer Journal Prompts

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Crossword Puzzle

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Brochure

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe's Obituary

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Quote Posters

⭐ Poe's Annabel Lee Poetry/Song Pairing

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Resource Bundle

But why stop with one poem? We have enough Edgar Allan Poe resources to frighten your students for months!

⭐ The Tell-Tale Heart Literature Guide

⭐ The Black Cat Literature Guide

⭐ The Pit and the Pendulum Literature Guide

⭐ The Cask of Amontillado Literature Guide

⭐ The Fall of the House of Usher Literature Guide

⭐ The Masque of the Red Death Literature Guide

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe Short Story BUNDLE

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This activity features an engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 puzzles covering vocabulary, figurative language, poetic elements, and quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task (and it is!), but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. It is the perfect activity for Halloween or any day you want to shake it up with your students without sacrificing learning. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

In this escape room, students will try to escape out of the haunted chamber of doom and depression by solving 5 different puzzles.

• Vocabulary: In the first task, students must match the correct definitions to vocabulary words from The Raven. The corresponding letters form a numeric code that only the teacher has the encryption key to solve and reveal the first code.
• Figurative Language: In the second task, students must identify 6 types of figurative language within the poem. Highlighted boxes in the correct answers will reveal the code.
• Fallen Phrase: In the third task, students must solve a fallen phrase that when correct, displays an important quote from the poem. Shaded boxes in the quote reveal the code.
• Close Read: In the fourth task, students must answer challenging multiple choice questions about The Raven that when correct, will reveal the code.
• Hidden Message: In the fifth and final task, students must discover the hidden message (a quote from The Raven) using clues from the first four tasks.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Booklet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

- Theme Reflection for homework assignment or in-class writing activity

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Also, check out these great products by Language Arts Excellence to supplement your unit on The Raven:

⭐ The Raven Figurative Language Challenge

⭐ The Raven Literature Guide

⭐ The Raven Socratic Seminar Lesson & Materials

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⭐ The Tell-Tale Heart ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Black Cat ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Pit & the Pendulum ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Fall of the House of Usher ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Masque of the Red Death ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Cask of Amontillado ESCAPE ROOM

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This resource features the most fun your students will have with figurative language all year!

I created this Figurative Language Challenge activity and lesson plan several years ago for my middle school students as they were studying Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem of a man spiraling into madness, "The Raven." Little did I know that it would become the most requested game among my students of all time. This resource includes a meticulously-detailed lesson plan using warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis, and a one-of-a-kind game that will get your students excited about identifying the copious amount of figurative language that pervades the poem. This is the perfect lesson plan for a Friday, on Halloween, or any time you need to amp up the energy in your classroom without sacrificing learning... and of course, it is Common Core aligned!

Product Includes:

• Full-length lesson plan
• Figurative Language Review Sheet
• 8 Figurative Language Signs to hang in room
• Teacher's Answer Key

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Also, check out these great products by Language Arts Excellence to supplement your unit on The Raven:

⭐ The Raven ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Raven Literature Guide

⭐ The Raven Socratic Seminar Lesson & Materials

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